Journal Archive

This was the moment I’d been hoping for: standing at the edge where curiosity and danger meet, where every step forward carried a paradox of adventure and risk. A place called Amazonia.

Dear Metapsychonauts, Since our last communiqué, something has quickened, it seems to me. The sleeper is stirring, the dream is destabilizing, the fog of time is fizzling, deliquescing, scintillating with the echoes of a forgotten eternity. Heaven and …

Dive into the raw, gritty fusion of acousmatic mystery and trance-like intensity, where polyrhythmic percussion and searing, bone-rattling electronic tones collide in a sonic inferno. This Camouflage Trance creation strips away visual origins, unleashing a wild, immersive storm that hits with unrelenting force. Check it out and brace for the impact!

Free will or fate? This paradox shows how knowing the future reshapes choice, challenging the very idea of absolute prediction.

This is about both the worst and most meaningful day of my life, the day I began to awaken from the intrinsic hypnotic effect that ‘life’ has upon us as endless, and yes immortal beings in a very mortal world—and universe.

A non-space of entropic delights—Deliverance offers a listening experience shaped by imagination, sensation, and the apophatic limits of language. It is at once minimal and infinite, a sonic passage that belongs to no one and to each listener alone.

A surreal, comedic dialogue with Chase Griffin on improv, tone synesthesia, pratfalls, flamingos, grief, comedy as spell work, and finishing the unfinishable novel.

From reductive IQ scores to alien bird-brains, this week we explore intelligence in all its multifaceted glory—human, machine, sonic, and otherworldly.

We’ve long tried to measure intelligence using a single number, from IQ scores to AI benchmarks. This article explains why that approach fails, and why a multidimensional view is essential for understanding both humans and machines.

Paul Beaudoin’s ein kleines klangportrait is a tightly woven sonic miniature, where the familiar sounds of piano and percussion are extended and entangled through tape to form a restless “hyper-instrument.” Faruk Mehić’s ePrelude op. 18 no. 3 offers a contrasting sense of space and pace. Flowing with a restrained elegance, the piece beckons close listening through finely shaped dynamics and spectral detail.

Explore light-force meditations and the art of contemplative listening to deepen awareness, stillness, and inner connection.

This Acousmatic Crossings installment brings together plastov’s Omega Amoeba and Jiajing Zhao’s Back to the Ocean—two pieces shaped by paradox. Each begins in quiet and seeming inertia yet reveals immersive sound worlds teeming with subtle morphologies. What first appears static becomes animate; what feels empty begins to overflow. The minimal becomes maximal—if you’re willing to stay with it. Headphones required. So is surrender.

A quick transmission before our summer break—featuring work by Harika Manjunath, Douglas Thornton, and Morgan Dix.

Margaret Phanes’ luminous digital art offers a meditative journey into light, consciousness, and the soul’s transformative power.

Near / The drummer’s fire / Will each his song at last / Conceive in heart / And breathe white smoke / Upon his youthful days; …

A metaphysical letter from Turīya—the fourth state of consciousness—addressed to the waking self. Blending poetry and philosophy, the piece invites the reader to return to the silent, ever-present witness behind all thought, identity, and experience.

A haunting soundwork by Rafael Ramirez using broken vinyl, turntablism, and memory to explore loss, hauntology, and imaginal worlds of sonic mourning.

What connects quantum DNA resonance and porridge-fueled body horror? Two pieces trace transmissions across science, psyche, and performance.

A young woman discovers a piece of porridge has stayed on her hand after washing up. During another heartless hook-up with her less-than-desired girlfriend Derek, the porridge attaches onto the other, and her body is haunted by the staining of life.

It’s been a very busy Summer here in Acousmatic Crossings land so we are a little late in presenting this video—but better late… as they say! On June 4th, 2025 we had out first (of hopefully many) live Acousmatic music diffusions featuring artists that …

What if Jung’s collective unconscious has a biological basis and Darwin missed evolution’s communication network? The DNA Resonance Hypothesis proposes that DNA functions as more than genetic storage—acting as a quantum antenna that enables non-local information exchange between organisms. This interdisciplinary exploration bridges psychology, evolutionary biology, and quantum physics to suggest that communication, not just competition, drives evolution and collective behavior.

What if music wasn’t made, but revealed? What if the earth’s magnetic breath or the mingling of East and West across the astral plane whispered secrets only the most generous ears could hear? In this latest Acousmatic Crossings installation, Amanda Stuart and Andre Perim invite us to the kind of cocktail party where thunder becomes code, whistlers become wisdom, and the hourglass of perception flips. Presence is requested—resonance is required.

AI power is warping elite behavior: The article critiques how certain influential figures in the AI world—rationalists, longtermists, techno-optimists—are using esoteric, hyper-rational ideologies to justify risky, manipulative, or self-serving behavior.

Sirius returns with a vengeance, with a chorus of fellow outlaws bent on turning the ghost of the 1990s into an electro-psychedelic séance for today’s burned-out attention span.

A visionary encounter with death and the spirit realm, weaving Hawaiian ancestral wisdom with personal revelation about life, water, and eternity.

Forged from live electronic improvisation, this story-sonic hybrid drifts into deep space and deeper states of consciousness. As the crew enters torpor, reality warps, perception fractures, and sound becomes the medium of transmutation. This is speculative audio-fiction at the edge of signal and dream—where every frequency might just open a portal.

Beyond a mechanical pump: explore the heart’s electromagnetic field, spiral flow dynamics, and sacred role in ancient traditions. Science meets spirituality.

Three luminous poems by Burt Rashbaum explore breath, scars, and transcendence. Includes audio recordings of the poet reading his own work.

These sculptures call out the absence of stories about women’s autonomy, bodily integrity, and independence from male control while remaining connected in Divine Female-Divine Male-relationship.

A meditation on duality, movement, and perception in sound—exploring new Acousmatic works by Philippe Neau and Darius Gylys in vibrant, shifting states.